The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

In May 2009 Infogrames Entertainment, SA, the parent company of Atari Inc. and Atari Interactive Inc., announced it would be changing Infogrames ' name to Atari, SA.

Digicel commenced separate proceedings against Cable and Wireless ( as bmobile's parent company ) in the English courts, claiming that Cable & Wireless has unfairly stifled competition in several Caribbean jurisdictions.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

Notice of closure attached to the door of a computer store the day after its parent company declared " bankruptcy " ( strictly, put into administration — see text ) in the United Kingdom.

O ' Daniel had parlayed the show's popularity into growing power within Light Crust Flour's parent company, Burrus Mill and Elevator Company and wound up as General Manager, though he despised what he considered " hillbilly music.

* Diageo – parent company

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Many thousands of the station's fans marched in the streets and on Parliament Hill against the decision, and the parent company of CHOI, Genex Corp., appealed the CRTC decision unsuccessfully to the Federal Court of Canada.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

Cessna's parent company Textron posted a loss of US $ 8M in the first quarter of 2010, largely driven by continuing low sales at Cessna, which were down 44 %.

On 7 April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced the decision to change the name of the parent company to Mandriva and their distribution name to Mandriva Linux, although the Brazilian operation would not change its name from Conectiva immediately.

It is the parent company to Ameridance and Eastern Cheer and Dance Association.

Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

Commodore UK was the only subsidiary to survive the bankruptcy and even placed a bid to buy out the rest of the operation, or at least the former parent company.

Casablanca Records had been releasing fewer records in the 1980s, and was shut down in 1986 by parent company PolyGram.

The theater company and Viacom / CBS Corporation parent National Amusements is based in Dedham.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

The Esso name was a trademark of Jersey Standard Oil, and attracted protests from other Standard Oil spinoffs because of its similarity to the name of the parent company, Standard Oil.

* Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and several other car-rental agencies

Other entries during this era included Fanball. com, launched in 1999 by the parent company of Fantasy Football Weekly.

RotoNews. com's parent company, Broadband Sports, went belly up in 2001.

The issue came to a head with the lawsuit of Major League Baseball Advanced Media ( MLBAM ), MLB's Internet company, vs. St. Louis-based CBC Distribution and Marketing Inc., the parent company of CDM Sports.

Formerly self-styled as the " World's Greatest Newspaper " ( for which WGN radio and television are named ), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation ( and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times ).

It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6, 000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with their employer, News International ( parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by Rupert Murdoch ).

* Contra Costa Times ( parent of Valley Times )

Other area papers include the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the parent paper of the Whittier Daily News, Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register.

The idea of fusing the common-law and equity courts first came to prominence in the 1850s ; although the Law Times dismissed it as " suicide " in 1852, the idea gained mainstream credibility, and by the end of the year the Times was writing that there was " almost unanimity " of opinion that the existence of two separate systems was " the parent of most of the defects in the administration of our law ".

Later that year, its parent company, Time Warner, struck a deal with the Tribune Company for Times Mirror magazines that included Golf, Ski, Skiing, Field & Stream, and Yachting.

In 2002, Hornung became president and publisher of Midwest Suburban Publishing, which was a company owned by then-Sun Times parent company Hollinger International.

Its parent company also owns The Suffolk Times, Shelter Island Reporter, The North Shore Sun, and The Wine Press.

In 2000, the Tribune Company, parent company of the Chicago Tribune and the area's KTLA, purchased the Los Angeles Times.

The Courant was purchased in 1979 by Times Mirror, the Los Angeles Times parent company.

About of contaminated soil and debris from Times Beach and 28 other sites in eastern Missouri were incinerated from March 1996 to June 1997 in an incinerator built and operated on the former site of the town by Syntex, the parent company of NEPACCO.

The Australian integrates content from overseas newspapers owned by News Limited's parent, News Corporation, including the Wall Street Journal and The Times.

After what Dees described in his autobiography as " a night of soul searching at a snowed-in Cincinnati airport " in 1967, he sold the company in 1969 to Times Mirror, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times.

Chandler ( nicknamed " Buff " or " Buffie ") worked at the Times or its parent, the Times Mirror Company, from 1948 to 1976.

It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6, 000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with their employers, News International ( parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by Rupert Murdoch ).

The Bowery Mission at 36 Bowery in New York City in the 1880sThe mission's parent organization, Christian Herald, once published Christian Herald And Signs Of Our Times.

The Irish Times in April 2011 acidly commented that " Increasingly, Ireland is being viewed as a provincial backwater by the parent company – albeit a very profitable little backwater – and all the strategic decisions are being taken in the UK.

On July 9, 2009, the parent company of Eagle Times, Eagle Publications, Inc., filed for Chapter 7 in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court and printed its final edition on July 10, 2009.

The company landed contracts to equip over 300, 000 Ford employees, 100, 000 Delta Air Lines employees, 250, 000 Vivendi employees, and 10, 000 New York Times employees with PeoplePC memberships almost fully subsidized by the parent companies.